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title: 'AI Engineer at Cargomatic'
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# AI Engineer at Cargomatic

- **Company:** Cargomatic
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-05-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cargomatic/jobs/5207803008

## Job description

AI Engineer – Agentic Automation Location: Remote Compensation: $150,000 – $210,000

Join a rapidly growing company disrupting the trucking industry! Cargomatic is the #1 technology platform and digital marketplace for powering world-class, local trucking. Take a look around you. Literally everything humans build, grow, or sell has spent time on a truck. Local trucking is the lifeblood of every regional economy, and yet this $82 billion industry still relies heavily on phone calls and fax machines. Cargomatic is transforming the way goods move around every local node in the supply chain by connecting shippers and commercial truck drivers with mobile technology. We are solving complex, real-world problems every day, and giving full transparency to the shipping process.

Cargomatic is seeking a highly hands-on AI Engineer who thrives in fast-paced environments and is passionate about rapid prototyping and deploying standalone AI-driven applications. This role focuses on building agentic AI systems and automation tools that integrate with our ecosystem and deliver immediate business value — working alongside a live TMS and RPA stack, with real exception-handling and audit requirements. You will work at the intersection of AI, product development, and infrastructure — quickly turning ideas into working prototypes and scaling the most promising solutions into production.

## Key Responsibilities

- Design agentic AI workflows for structured logistics operations, with clear escalation paths to human review or RPA where deterministic handling is required
- Call core platform/internal APIs to integrate automation workflows into our TMS and other internal systems, partnering with front-end and backend engineering on execution
- Integrate LLMs, APIs, and data pipelines into reliable production services — including data engineering tie-ins with systems like Firestore and Redshift
- Build and implement agentic AI systems capable of autonomous decision-making and task execution
- Own evaluation frameworks — accuracy, latency, cost per call, fallback behavior, and exception handling
- Implement guardrails, monitoring, and audit trails for production AI systems
- Collaborate with Product and Ops to define success metrics before building
- Leverage modern LLM ecosystems, including Claude-based and code-first AI frameworks, to build intelligent agents and workflows
- Stay current with advancements in AI/ML, especially in agent frameworks and automation tooling
- Build lightweight frontend interfaces from product prototypes, and partner with full-stack engineering to productionize and scale successful prototypes

Required

- 3+ years in software engineering with hands-on experience shipping AI or automation systems in production enterprise environments
- Strong grasp of agentic AI concepts — tool use, function calling, exception routing, and confidence handling at scale
- Clear understanding of where LLMs and agentic systems outperform RPA — and where they don't
- Comfortable working alongside RPA developers — understands how to hand off structured outputs into downstream deterministic workflows
- Experience with LLM APIs (Claude, OpenAI) including prompt design, orchestration, and evaluation
- Workflow orchestration experience — n8n, LangChain, Temporal, or similar
- Familiarity with no-code/low-code automation tools including Zapier, with the ability to know when to move beyond them
- Experience building rules-based automation with structured inputs, exception handling, and audit trails
- Familiarity with RAG and vector databases
- Experience integrating with TMS or ERP platforms, including calling core platform/internal APIs to execute production actions
- Backend proficiency in Node.js; comfort with React for building lightweight interfaces; comfortable partnering with full-stack and data engineering teams to ship into production systems
- AWS experience (Lambda, ECS, S3)
- Familiarity with databases and data warehouses such as MongoDB, RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL), Firestore, and Redshift
- Experience integrating third-party APIs and building microservices
- Active GitHub or demonstrated track record of shipping AI systems in production beyond the prototype stage

## Benefits & Perks

Competitive compensation Medical, dental, and vision benefits 401K company match program Flexible paid time off (PTO) and paid holidays

## Equal Opportunity Employer

Cargomatic is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

## About Cargomatic

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cargomatic operates the largest digital marketplace for local trucking, connecting shippers with a network of over 35,000 professional drivers to streamline local freight and drayage.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: Long Beach, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Logistics & freight technology (third-party logistics / 3PL)
- **Target customers**: B2B – shippers, importers, retailers, and carriers needing local, regional, or national freight solutions (LTL, FTL, drayage, intermodal, white-glove delivery)
- **Mission/purpose**: “Change the way things move” by solving complex, real-world supply chain problems through innovation and technology

## Products & Services
- **Digital Freight Marketplace**: AI-enabled platform that matches cargo space and drivers to shippers in real time, creating capacity on demand.
- **Less‑Than‑Truckload (LTL)**: Smart routing and bundling technology to consolidate loads from multiple shippers for efficiency and cost savings.
- **Full‑Truckload (FTL)**: On‑demand and scheduled full‑truckload services for local, regional, and national hauling.
- **Drayage**: Port and rail‑ramp services covering the top 20 ports in the continental US.
- **Intermodal**: One‑stop solution connecting air, ground, rail, and sea shipments.
- **White‑Glove / Final Mile**: In‑home delivery and direct‑to‑consumer shipping with branded, high‑touch service.
- **API Integration**: Seamless API for embedding Cargomatic’s marketplace into third‑party platforms.
- **Storage / Yard Management**: Additional warehousing and yard services.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total headcount of 453 employees (as of 2025); network of 35,000+ trucks across 50+ markets; trusted by 19 of the top 20 importers.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not publicly listed; leadership team comprises executives with 150+ years of combined supply chain experience.
- **Growth Signals**: Named to Built In’s Best Places to Work for 2025; rapidly expanding team with multiple open roles across engineering, sales, operations, and product; continuous investment in AI‑enabled platform capabilities.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Largest automated marketplace** for local freight in the US, providing unmatched capacity and coverage.
- **Proprietary AI‑enabled platform** using real‑time location data to optimize load matching and routing.
- **True one‑stop shop** – one provider for LTL, FTL, drayage, intermodal, white‑glove, and yard management, managed through a single technology platform.
- **Subsidiary‑owned assets** combined with a vast network of owner‑operators and fleets ensures reliability and flexibility.

## Strategic Focus
- Continuing to expand technology platform and automation to reduce friction in fragmented freight processes.
- Deepening relationships with top importers and expanding into additional U.S. markets.
- Enhancing API and integration capabilities to embed Cargomatic into customer supply chains.
- Growing the team across engineering, product, sales, and operations to support scaling.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include transparency, accountability, modesty, partnership, and intellectual curiosity. Described as a people‑first environment where employees thrive on solving complex problems.
- **Work policy**: OnSite workspace – employees within a 40‑minute commute of hub offices (Long Beach, San Francisco, Chicago, Dayton NJ) are required to work onsite unless their role is designated as remote.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, 401K match, flexible PTO, company‑sponsored life insurance, and a strong benefits package.
- **Recognition**: Named a Built In Best Places to Work for 2025.
- **Engineering culture**: Uses modern tech stack (GitHub, CRM tools); emphasis on innovation and real‑world impact in logistics.

## Sources
1. [Cargomatic Website](https://cargomatic.com/)
2. [Cargomatic Careers Page](https://cargomatic.com/about/careers/)
3. [Cargomatic Leadership Page](https://cargomatic.com/about/leadership/)
4. [Built In Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/cargomatic)
5. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cargomatic)

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